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Jun 4, 2020 9:52 PM
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xtremejakes
maybe boss character in assassins creed ??
Becker37
The king we need
TheViking333
Hahaha yeeaaa that happened
Fauxcused
Was told all my life I was defender from him. As an adult with a sense of history and geography I realize my family was full of shit
DidYouSeeThat
Ha! I'm part of his lineage, dude was a beast.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Henry the Red:
Navrodel
He also chose to call where he ended up Greenland to trick people into joining him.
FailedCrate
Except that vikings were normally not brutal beings. Stop sticking to anachronistic stereotypes.
RagnartheCat
he then founded a colony on Greenland, had a son, banished him, and his son discovered Newfoundland.
davidrzr
He was a hatchet man for the early Christian church in Norway and later greenland.
nosoupforoldmen
You're damn right
aluminumfalconjumpercables
Cute.
thorthegreat
Bjorn was calm, it only took two men to restrain him.
sact3rnlang3l
Should I follow my ancestors ways?
BillCornelius
skated up behind his foe who was talking to the mayor (of Oslo?), axed him as he went by & left for Iceland w/ crew before the cops arrived.
AtsaMattaForMe
JoeKreeg
Ragnar!
daMesuoM
Volarus
Fluffywoowoo
Tokfan kunde icke behärska sig
Eomund521
My family line is directly descended from him. We take pride in his insanity.
WeSingLalaWhileTheDevilDoesTheChaCha
Red, as in "Bloody hell Eric, are you nuts!?"
HolyHellJezebel
Uff da.
Kinkyfuck
så forhelvede
avocadoodies
Oisann
Onja
Opsan
Nauzusil
Pøh
PeterMus
George Costanza: We live in a society!
Sawdamizer
Hella
Deadpoolio7
Hela.
InWedgeWeTrust
Hel yeah!
strawberryfieldsforjusttoday
hello! ?
rcraigsmith9000
ChicagoStyleDotHog
I mean yeah but for like 3 years.
Telruin
"Gamle-Erik" (Old-Erik) is a nickname for the Devil in Norwegian.
Colopty
Never heard that name used, but apparently it is indeed a thing. Has nothing to do with this dude though, it's the name of a swedish saint.
Telruin
It's a theory.It could be more than one explanation.Especially as a Swedish Saint, might not have been as popular in Norway.(Just a thought)
RiktheRed21
One of his banishments came about because he murdered his neighbor when the man wouldn’t return a tool Erik had lent him. Honestly, mood.
w0od
shouldn't have lent him that hoe then if you wanted it back to do the dishes.
Domehammer
That is a bigger deal in the past, who knows how long it would take to go find a blacksmith that could spare time to forge a new tool.
RiktheRed21
Not to mention, since this was in Iceland, their only wood was from shipwreck drift. So tool handles were more valuable than the metal parts
TheRelevancyOfMyNameIsRelativelyIrrelevant
there were no trees in iceland?
RiktheRed21
Very few. They still struggle with wood shortages nowadays iirc.
UnholyMoses
As someone who feels like the area Snap On Tools guy without the obscene income...yeah, that seems like an appropriate response tbh.
dawixys
His Son Leif Eriksson founded Vinland, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia aproxiamently year 1000-1020
kirowindisch
He, funny, that's my fathers exact name, every letter xD
Deadpoolio7
Can’t wait for the Vikings sequel show about Leif
ColonelColon
Just read Vinland Saga, not quite the focus of the story, but still good.
skios
The Saga of the Greenlanders makes for an excellent companion piece to that.
davdeMoonQueen
BESTtaylorINAUSTRALIA
I want his 1 man ship.
gwhh
Those are rookies numbers.
Lastcentura
The best Skarsgård
Kamiiruruma
Teeheee
Skeletron11
Still can't get it that he is also a Skarsgård - that whole family is good looking
ilhares
I'll have to see him out of costume to gauge that. I don't tend to ogle men, but he is not looking very good here.
Skeletron11
Here you go :) https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0803890/mediaviewer/rm4221917440
ilhares
Hmm. Kind of a Jason Statham vibe there. Okay, you've made a valid argument, I acknowledge this.
ilhares
Not for Bill, but Eric and Gustaf are lookin' pretty good.
Skeletron11
Haha thank you for attending my Skarsgård's are attractive ted talk
Soberyn
Are they all brothers? They look so different from each other.
Skeletron11
They certainly are ?
Skeletron11
The whole fam bam - https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQALzNTO9bIutfbHpEkxyIeHgKt8T0dnUdbZV4cAZEjuCnrNlarBSem_yKH&s=10
Soberyn
Most of them have awesome names and then there's Sam and Bill.
Skeletron11
Hahah yeah
decarnatedame
He's my favorite Skarsgård!
BatmanAndCradleRobin
My grandpa claims my family is descended from him. Im not sure thats all the plausible though.
Kbantar
My partner took a DNA test. Zero percent native American, so all the family stories were wrong.
BatmanAndCradleRobin
The dna test came in for me, and its like bois the whitest weve ever seen.
skullyosis721
Native American is actually really hard to detect with DNA tests like 23andMe because there is such a low sample size. 1/2
Kbantar
My brother's came back with a chunk of Native American, a little less than we thought, but not unbelievably so.
ThatOneGuyM
Truth. I’m a Métis Canadian, had a test done while on vacation, came back 0% Native American and 17% Central American. Seems unlikely due to
ThatOneGuyM
My family all being Métis and one side having treaty only 2 generations back. But it could be legit I suppose, the other 83% was European.
skullyosis721
I.e., not a lot of Native Americans have tried the commercial tests, compared to Europeans. Sometimes NA gets classified as East Asian. 2/2
skullyosis721
Source: I'm an evolutionary biologist who works with genomic data.
skullyosis721
I don't work with humans, but I use the same types of analyses they use for any kind of genomic data.
thundercactus
I'm french, english, irish, german, and native. And that's only the ones I know about lol
NSander
His dad was banished from Norway, so they moved to iceland, where he himself was banishes, then "discovered" and named greenland.
Colopty
He was briefly banished from Iceland, then some years later downgraded to "merely" an outlaw.
EvilDeadTed
Seems like Banished and Outlaw are effectively the same thing.
Colopty
Not really. If banished you're forced to move, if outlawed you may stay if you wish but the law no longer protects you from being murdered.
theleftmostpotato
Another phrase for outlaws was "with the head of a wolf" which meant if you were killed, you'd have as much legal protection as a wolf